Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Project namespace (section)

==Creating new project pages==
{{See|Wikipedia:Avoid writing redundant essays|Wikipedia:Content forking/Internal#Policy forks}}
{{seealso|Wikipedia:User pages#What may I have in my user pages?|Wikipedia:Drafts#Creating and editing drafts}}
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Essays and information pages may be established by writing them and adding {{tl|Essay}}, {{tl|Information page}}, {{tl|Wikipedia how-to}}, or [[Wikipedia:Template messages/Wikipedia namespace|similar templates]] to the page. Essays and information pages in the "Wikipedia namespace" should not be used to create an alternative rule set. Creation of new guideline and policy pages require discussion and a [[WP:Local consensus|high level of consensus]] from the entire community before publication (see [[WP:PROPOSAL]] for procedural details). For general recommendations about the creation and improvement of existing guideline and policy pages, see [[Wikipedia:Policy writing is hard]].

The project namespace contains many pages and a lot of information. Try to avoid creating new pages unnecessarily. Before creating a new page, you should consider looking through the [[Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia|topical index]], [[Wikipedia:Essay directory|essay directory]] and [[Help:Directory|help directory]] to see if the material belongs at a page that already exists. It is strongly recommended that you propose a [[WP:PJ|WikiProject]] at the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals|proposal page]], if there are enough willing editors to participate in the project. Already existing WikiProjects can be found in the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory|directory of WikiProjects]].